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6 Forbidden Mistakes To Avoid In Warri by willywasco(m): 8:44am On Feb 08, 2016
Warri, a city in South-South Nigeria, is the commercial capital hub of Delta State and one of the major pivots of petroleum activities in the region. The city offers business opportunities as well as wonderful sights such as the Delta Ports, Nana Living History Museum and Red Mangrove swamp, to visitors.
However, thanks to the myriad jokes about the city by Nigerian comedians and celebrities, some visitors are a bit reluctant to visit the city as they have the impression that Warri is an aggressive place and its inhabitants, belligerent. Although there is no city without drawbacks, these stereotypes are largely untrue. You can have a marvelous time in this metropolis if you steer certain mistakes and Jovago.com, portal shares a list of things to avoid doing while visiting Warri.
Prolonged Haggling
Every traveler and visitors to a city likes to leave with a souvenir and most times, the best souvenirs are gotten straight from the rural markets or local vendors. Warri certainly boast of various markets an d local vendors abound, however, it is important that you set a budget, have at least a vague idea of what you are looking to buy and you maintain proper decorum while making the purchase in the city’s markets. While the locals do not expect that you would buy their item or product without haggling, they strongly detest prolonged haggling and even worse customers who take too long to decide on a purchase. Most times, you hear vendors make comments like : “ if u wan buy, buy; an if you no wan buy, abeg, dey go” when they are utterly irritated by a tourist buyer.
Responding to pidgin with English


Warri is famed for its unique brand of Pidgin. While they are not very kind to people who try to mock the language or people who speak it wrongly, they are even much more irritated by visitors who respond to them in English (especially polished English or what Nigerian refer to as “Phonee English”) when they originally started the conversation pidgin. “who you dey follow speak spri spri” is a common retort the culprit would get. This mostly applies to visitors from around the country, they tend to make exceptions for foreigners. If you are visiting the city and you know your pidgin is not as fluent and quick as that of the locals, take time to rehearse what you want to say before you utter it, however, if you cannot, try to speak the normal Nigerian English at least, or at most, go with a local. Speaking ‘Queen’s English’ usually gives off a haughty vibe, which they mostly are averse to.
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Re: 6 Forbidden Mistakes To Avoid In Warri by xender(m): 9:12am On Feb 08, 2016
so where are d mistakes ...

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Re: 6 Forbidden Mistakes To Avoid In Warri by gsalvatore: 1:37pm On Feb 08, 2016
very stingy people...Warri people see generosity as forming.

poverty don ravage their senses...
Re: 6 Forbidden Mistakes To Avoid In Warri by Nobody: 8:27am On Feb 09, 2016
I must say here that waffi is a nice place to say. Dey ve got d ajebo pikin speaking splufik English when dey want to. Just love the intonation of dos kolo ones sayin "I wan go Haaz"

Love dia fashion sense though.

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